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claws behind. The Coat should be smooth, harsh in 

 texture, very close and abundant, a jacket to protect 

 wearer from all weathers. Colours: white should 

 predominate. Brindle, fallow, liver, or red, markings 

 are objectionable. Size. The Fox Terrier must neither 

 be leggy or too near the ground, neither must he be 

 cloddy, but should have plenty of ' liberty,' and gallop- 

 ing power, with good bone and substance; fair speed 

 and endurance being essentially requisite for his legiti- 

 mate calling. Seventeen pounds in hard working con- 

 dition is a fair average weight, but this may vary a 

 pound or so either way. Make, shape, good shoulders 

 and chest, being far better criterions, in this respect, 

 than actual weight. — " 



The above applies to " Smooth," but is also an ex- 

 cellent standard for " Wirehaired Fox Terriers," which 

 are judged on same lines, except coat, which in 

 the latter, should be about two inches long, and very 

 dense, and wiry, not shaggy, or woolly, on any account. 



Dandies. — A very sterling and genuine breed is the 

 Dandie Dinmont Terrier, which was, I think, first 

 brought to public notice by the writings of Sir 

 Walter Scott, and as I have bred, owned, exhib- 

 ited and judged more of them than most people, I may 

 be allowed to say they are highly intelligent (according 

 to my experience, much more so than any breed of Ter- 

 rier, and I believe I have kept most of them), devoted 

 to their owners " born sportsmen," being always open 

 for anything in the way of " sport " on land or in 

 water, full of dash and spirit, have a quaint and pic- 



